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I would bet most of this users clicking things they should not. recently my company put out a phishing email and people clicked on it and then started a thread
by siffland 7y ago
I would bet most of this users clicking things they should not. recently my company put out a phishing email and people clicked on it and then started a thread on the internal forums about how mad they were the company would do this (they had to take extra training if the fell for it). Another co worker was telling me about his old position where he put the thumb drives in parking lots and people would pick them up and plug them into their work computer, and the would get mad that their security team did this exercise and caught them.
Yes a lot can still be done with security on machines and traffic, etc.... But the human factor is hard to control and fix. If someone sent out a phishing email with a link that said "click here to see magical unicorns jumping over a rainbow", someone would click it, i know poeple i work with who would click it. It gets, frustrating at least for me, since i have a lot to do with security where i am at.
- MiroF 7y agoThis comment is non-responsive to the parent
- AnIdiotOnTheNet 7y agoWhat's frustrating is that we're still dealing with systems where these kinds of simple and obvious actions are not safe. What reasonable person thinks that clicking on a link is a potentially dangerous act? That's how everything is done these days, and we're not supposed to trust that it is a safe operation? We're not supposed to plug in a USB drive to see what's on it? That's pretty much all they're for!
- loopz 7y agoPeople expect to plug in USB and all to magically work. In this case hardware/firmware get full access and can fry your port. 0-day bugs and lacking updates make promiscuous internet use hazardous, yet people expect browser to do everything a PC can.